#way

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#drive #each #just #lived #lives

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#chimerical #country #faces #father #feeling

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#behind #face #fall #keep #shadows

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#uplifting #way-to-be #inspirational

Quo Usque Tandem Abutere Patientia Nostra, Catilina ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#inspirational

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#life #way #inspirational

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beyond #deeply #expands #into #itself

The future is always a dystopia in movies. ↗

— Alex Cox

#future #movies

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time. The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for. And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become. We don't give thanks because we're happy. We are happy because we give thanks. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#uplifting #way-to-be #inspirational